[Tfug] OT: Big Oil? Windows Vista!

[Bexley Hall]

--- Hubert M Bath <bathhm at laposadagv.net> wrote:

> "one will be able to buy a solar panel that is the
> size of a laptop for 
> several hundred dollars that will be able to power
> your house, in say 5 
> to 10 years...."
> 
> So apparently 1000 watts/m^2 is available at the
> earth's surface.  A 
> laptop has an area of about 0.12 m^2.  So the
> laptop, collecting and 
> converting at 100% efficiency could generate 120
> watts.  That's all the 
> energy that is available.  Enough for a very small
> house.

*doll* house, perhaps... (or, *dog* house??)